New Patient Registration

If you wish to register as a patient please come into the surgery to collect your registrations forms. We will need to confirm that you are living in the Folkestone area and within our practice boundary. You will be offered a new patient check with one of the nursing team. You will need your previous GP details and your NHS number if you know it.

If you require medication and you have just registered with us you will need to book an appointment with a GP so these can be added to your computer records at the clinic.

Practice List

Under the terms of the current General Medical Services contract that we hold with government all of our patients are registered under Dr M Fernandes as the Lead GP. We have an excellent clinical team here, you can choose to see any of our GPs. Please ask to see your usual GP for your continuity of care.

Our Practice Area

Our practice area covers a large part of Folkestone. We also have patients registered in:

Hawkinge

Capel

Sandgate

Seabrook

Cheriton

Newington

Peene

Guide to GP Services

The Royal College of General Practitioners has produced a useful guide for patients about the services on offer at GP Surgeries and how to access them. You can download the guide below.

These fact sheets have been written to explain the role of UK health services, the National Health Service (NHS), to newly-arrived individuals seeking asylum. They cover issues such as the role of GPs, their function as gatekeepers to the health services, how to register and how to access emergency services.

Special care has been taken to ensure that information is given in clear language, and the content and style has been tested with user groups. Open the leaflets in one of the following languages

Temporary Registration

If you are ill while away from home or if you are not registered with a doctor but need to see one you can receive emergency treatment from the local GP practice for 14 days. After 14 days you will need to register as a temporary or permanent patient.

You can be registered as a temporary patient for up to three months. This will allow you to be on the local practice list and still remain a patient of your permanent GP. After three months you will have to re-register as a temporary patient or permanently register with that practice.

To register as a temporary patient simply contact the local practice you wish to use. Practices do not have to accept you as a temporary patient although they do have an obligation to offer emergency treatment. You cannot register as a temporary patient at a practice in the town or area where you are already registered.